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ssahagunLucid support team
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What syntax can I use to diagram as code with Mermaid?Lucid advice

Lucidchart supports a variety of diagram types when using Mermaid for diagramming as code. This post outlines the basic syntax for creating supported diagrams with Mermaid in Lucidchart. Flowchart Create clear and easy-to-understand flowcharts to represent complex systems and processes. The following code provides a framework for implementing a flowchart using Mermaid syntax in Lucidchart. Code: ---title: Chart Title---flowchart LRA[Start] --> B[Step 1]B --> C[Step 2]C --> D{Decision Point}D -- Option 1 --> E[Step 3A]D -- Option 2 --> F[Step 3B]E --> G[Step 4A]F --> H[Step 4B]G --> I[Next Step or End]H --> I This code represents a basic flowchart structure where each step or decision point is clearly defined. Use ‘LR’ for left-to-right flowcharts. Use ‘TD’ for top-to-bottom flowcharts. For more advanced flowchart styling options, check out Mermaid’s Flowchart Basic Syntax guide. The example below utilizes Mermaid code to visualize the scientific method through a flowchart. Sequence Dia

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knikolai
knikolaiLucidite
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Lucid Folder Organization: A Recommended Structure

Make folder navigation effortless to help you breathe easier! If you're an avid user of Lucid, you may find yourself overwhelmed by the sheer number of documents you've created—especially when collaborating with other power users. Over time, your folder structure can become cluttered and hard to navigate. To help streamline your workspace, here’s a recommended approach for organizing your Lucid folders that makes it easier to sift through a long list of documents. This method is actually used internally at Lucid today. 1. Pick a category for the main folder Start by creating subfolders within your team folders based on the type of document you're organizing. ✅ For example, if you're grouping customer-related documents, create a folder named “Customers.” 2. Alphabetize subfolders If your organization works with hundreds or even thousands of customers, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. To manage this, break down the Customers folder into subfolders based on alphabetical ranges—such as “A–D,

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cbailey
cbaileyLucidite
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Measuring the Value of Visual Collaboration

We all agree there’s value in visual collaboration. “A picture is worth a thousand words” runs through our minds as we attempt to articulate the value. But with so much support for collaboration, including at the executive level, why do we still get stuck attempting to show the tangible value generated? I’ve found it stems from not having a sufficient model for measurement. Many leaders attempt to create a single measure, like money saved or headcount saved, but find no one measure captures it all. A correct model appreciates 6 types of value from visual collaboration. To be brief, I’ll highlight 2 that demonstrate the approach to take when measuring the value from visual collaboration. Time Saved - This is widely used, because the math is easy: subtract “how long it used to take” from “how long it takes now.” But frequently we mistakenly try to turn it into money saved. It’s easy to do as well, just multiply the hours saved by an hourly rate and you have money saved...but when your CF

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Lucid Legend Level 2
PabstLucid Legend Level 2
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Great Video: Geography and tools

I’d like to give a shoutout 👏🏻 🤜🏻🤛🏻 🎈💥 to Emily Keator (can’t find her @ to tag her in here) for the Geography and tools video 📺 If you haven’t watched this overview and you’re interested in working with data 📊 and formulas 🛠, this is a must. In <15mins Emily covered a ton of great “Geography” 🌐 tips around the Lucidchart canvas and how to correlate and use data to enhance your charts 📈📉. Highly recommend 🏆

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Kelsey Gaag
Kelsey GaagLucid community team
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✨Use Case Spotlight✨: @aparrish's Floor Plan!

​@aparrish is a longtime and dedicated Lucid Legend! She is a Lucid pro and such a great addition to our team! She is incredibly knowledgable and always providing incredible insights to the community. Check out this use case from Amanda on how she utilizing Lucid to create a floor plan for a 1 bed apartment. Describe why you built it and how you use it in your role/industry I created this when I moved into a 1BR apartment so I knew where I wanted everything to go. I created this to highlight how I personally use Lucid, since I cannot share the diagrams I’ve made in my role and industry. What Lucid features did you use to build your board that were especially useful? Shapes were especially useful, especially walls, rooms, and doors for creating the skeleton based on the empty floor plan I could view when I was a potential renter. Then I could fill it in with tables, chairs, bathroom stuff, beds, dressers, kitchen stuff and appliances, couches, and technology What would you recommend to

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olguinmke
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Great First Lucidspark Activity for Nursing Professors

Hello, I am training some nursing professors on how to use Lucidspark in Canvas. I would like to embed a document that they will all collaborate on just to become familiar with navigation, tools, menus, etc. This will be from the student perspective. They are enrolled in a course in which they are students. It could be an ice breaker activity or it could be an example of something they might use for their students. Any suggestions or ideas would be appreciated. I did listen to the YT playlist of how others are using it, but I really didn’t get any good ideas for this first learning experience. I am learning Lucid as I go along as well. Thanks in advance! Debbie

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Bear
BearLucidite
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The Secret to More Collaborative Meetings? Choosing the Right Structure

We’ve all been in those meetings—the ones that could’ve been an email, the ones that wander aimlessly, and the ones where decisions never seem to stick. The problem? Not every meeting is the same, but we often run them as if they are. As an expert in the Lucid Suite with nearly 8 years of experience training tens of thousands of users each year I can confidently say that great meetings don’t just happen. They’re designed . They’re intentional . And when you match the structure of your meeting to its purpose, magic happens. I’d love to share what I’ve learned about the three primary types of meetings you can run in the Lucid Suite—and how to make them more collaborative, visual, and actionable. 1. Linear Meetings: When Order Matters These meetings follow a clear agenda, progressing step by step toward a goal. Think of them like a roadmap—you start at point A and work toward point B with a structured flow. Common Linear Meetings: ➡️ Sprint planning ➡️ Training ➡️ Project kickoffs ➡️ Deci

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Luc P
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Dynamic embed a Lucidchart diagram inside a Lucid document

Cannot find my previous request……. Just to say thank you, we seems to have a embed dynamic chart,. meaning I can add a link to a another chart, click and it will bring me inside that embed chart and I can come back with the arrow top left corner. ( or it was trhere an never realize LOL) Just missing a preview to have a quick idea of what the embed chart look like :-) I saw the we can assign an image which is a good start… If we could have a dynamic navigation, tha would be awosome….. It would feel like we hover the embed chart with a drone :-)

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Olivia Q
Olivia QLucidite
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5 Scrum values

Calling all Scrum teams! Did you know that the Scrum methodology is built upon five core values that are essential to success? ✅ Commitment ✅ Courage ✅​​​​​​​ Focus ✅​​​​​​​ Openness ✅​​​​​​​ Respect These values remain at the foundation of high-performing Scrum teams. Which of these values resonates with your team the most? Which value do you find most challenging? Share your thoughts below.​​ Also, I thought I’d share this Visual activity with you to improve collaboration and productivity! ​​​​​​​

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Vanessa C101
Vanessa C101Lucidite
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Sending out Lucid templates with Schoology

The Lucid integration with Schoology will be retired in July 2025. After this date, any Lucid links embedded via the integration will no longer work. However, you will continue to be able to manually add Lucid documents to Schoology in order to replace existing Lucid assignments, and to add Lucid to new assignments. Now let’s take a look at how to send out Lucid templates to students using force-copy links in Schoology. This will allow teachers to send out a link to students that will automatically generate a copy of the Lucid document for each student to work on and then turn in through Schoology with a URL submission. | How to Video Step 1: Convert your Lucid document to a template | Open you Lucid document, click on file, and select “Convert to template” from t he drop down menu. Step 2: Go to the templates section of your Lucid dashboard and click on “created by me.” Step 3: Click on the “eye-ball” preview button on your template. Step 4: Click on the link icon next to the title of

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Patrick Saul
Patrick SaulLucidite
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Best Practices for Managing & Sharing Lucid Documentation

The Need: Sharing with Cross-Functional Stakeholders As a Solutions Consultant, I often get questions from customers about sharing process maps, architecture diagrams, and design documents with stakeholders outside their team. While the specifics matter, a few common principles lead our customers to success Getting Started: Team Hubs for Document Management Effective external sharing begins with internal organization. Lucid's Team Hubs are ideal for organizing and sharing documents internally and externally. This post focuses on managing documents and folders within a Team Hub for stakeholder sharing. Principle 1: Organize Documents by Status Internal clarity about document status (WIP vs. Final/Ready to Share) is essential. This can be achieved by: Document Status: Assigning statuses like Draft, Review, and Final provides context and aids tracking in Revision History . Folder Structure: Separating internal and external documents into different folders aids visibility. It will even hel

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josephwhiting
josephwhitingLucidite
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How to use Elephants and a bit of Lucid magic to break down walls with your team

How to use Elephants and a bit of Lucid magic to break down walls with your team. I should start by confessing that I’m a huge Lucid Nerd, and while I’m lucky enough to spend 95% of my job working in Lucid I’ve also used it to: Plan the construction budget for my new home, Design my yard’s drip line irrigation system, Teach and facilitate university design thinking courses and even project managed my own wedding All using the power of Lucid’s Visual Collaboration Suite So it probably comes as no surprise that when it comes to building a stronger team culture, we here at Lucid, use Lucid! One of my favorite ways that we do this is with Visual activities, a powerful and versatile visual based live-polling feature that allows each participant to individually rank and place a set of objects without seeing the rest of the groups placements and then reveal the results using plots charts to see where we all land. In the words of Lucid’s Chief Product Officer: “Visual activities give you a cry

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Ria S
Lucid Legend Level 8
knikolai
knikolaiLucidite
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Learn from Lucidites: The Importance of Empathy and Icebreakers

Starting a meeting with empathy and a shared understanding can make a world of difference in how the session unfolds. One effective way to foster this connection is by performing a Visual Activity or icebreaker at the beginning of the meeting. While some may question, “Why do we need this? Can’t we just dive into the material?” — the answer lies in psychological research. Participants are more engaged when they feel seen and heard, which in turn enhances the overall experience. Why Icebreakers Matter A Visual Activity such as an icebreaker serves more than just a "warm-up" function. It helps establish familiarity among participants, setting a tone of comfort and openness. When people feel like they’re part of the conversation, they’re more likely to engage and contribute. This connection can be especially vital when the group is unfamiliar with one another, or if the subject matter requires a high level of collaboration and understanding. Choosing the Right Icebreaker The key to an eff

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LauraMNLucidite
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Learn from Lucidites: How to facilitate engaging meetings

There are typical team meetings, and then there are fun, productive, interactive team meetings. Want to learn how to up your game and host meetings that are enjoyable for everyone? Check out this blog post to see how 12 Lucidites use Lucid to facilitate engaging meetings. You’ll discover a ton of useful facilitation tips, including: Creating a custom meeting agenda to ensure alignment before a Zoom call even begins. Capturing attention with features such as Frames and Paths to focus on specific areas of a board. Encouraging interaction from all participants, regardless of their collaboration style . Using Visual Activities to vote on ideas or do a fun icebreaker. A zombie apocalypse icebreaker activity, available in Lucid. Which Lucidite’s advice do you think you’ll try? Do you have other ways you use visual collaboration to facilitate your meetings? Let us know in the comments!

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Ria S
Lucid Legend Level 8
Kelsey Gaag
Kelsey GaagLucid community team
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From Chaos to Clarity: Organize Your Ideas with Lucidspark ✏️

Brainstorming can quickly lead to a jumble of ideas, making it hard to organize and understand. With Lucidspark, you can structure your thoughts and visualize relationships to get aligned with your team and transform chaos into actionable clarity. Sort ideas with Collaborative AI 📃 Collaborative AI helps clarify ideas by automatically grouping sticky notes into categories. This feature makes it easier to synthesize information, identify high-priority areas, and create a starting point for planning. To use this feature select your sticky notes, select sort, and choose Collaborative AI. Connect & Expand ideas with Mind Maps 🧠 Utilize Mind Maps to flexibly connect ideas and visualize relationships. Start with a central concept, expand by adding key points, and create a clear representation of connections visually. You can use AI to effortlessly expand on ideas ideas or generate questions in your mind map. i Prioritize ideas with Visual Activities ⭐ Align with your team and organize idea

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Ktomlinson
KtomlinsonLucidite
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Bridging the Gaps: How Understanding Upstream and Downstream Can Improve Your Workflow

In fast-paced work environments, teams often focus on their own tasks without seeing how their actions impact the broader process. This lack of awareness of upstream and downstream effects can lead to inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and costly mistakes. When teams collaborate to map out processes, they can identify dependencies, spot gaps, and see how each role contributes to the bigger picture. Involving different departments fosters shared understanding, ownership, and creates a more effective process overall. Why Upstream and Downstream Matter Every process is part of a bigger system. An upstream process refers to steps that happen before a specific task, while downstream processes follow. When teams lack visibility into these connections, they risk roadblocks, duplication, or decisions that disrupt others. Examples: IT & Engineering: A development team launches a feature without consulting the infrastructure team, causing server crashes. Sales & Product: A sales team commits to a new

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shannon
shannonLucidite
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Lately @ Lucid: Big announcements and product updates on April 3

If you haven’t heard, Lucid is hosting its biggest event yet on April 3, and we want you to join in on all of the excitement! 🎉 Lucid leaders, including CEO Dave Grow, CPO Dan Lawyer, and SVP of Strategy & Operations Jamie Lyon, will share big announcements during our Lately @ Lucid keynote. Join us virtually to hear about: Lucid’s expanded vision Product updates that will help you accelerate major initiatives across your organization Exciting partnership news Following the keynote, there will be four breakout sessions to help you start using Lucid for Agile, cloud optimization, process improvement, and product management. We’re offering three start times to support Lucid users all over the world, so we hope to see you there! 👉 Register now If you can’t attend, still register! We’ll send you the recordings via email post-event.

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Ktomlinson
KtomlinsonLucidite
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Making Mission Statement Creation Less Intimidating (utilizing AI Quick Actions)

Before joining Lucid as a Solutions Consultant, I facilitated strategic planning sessions, helping teams define their core values and mission statements—surprisingly, a daunting task for many. Just hearing the words 'Strategic Planning' or 'Mission Statement' often made people anxious. Strategic planning can feel overwhelming, so having someone to guide teams through it in a structured yet approachable way is a huge asset. Utilizing Lucid in this process has allowed me to remove some of the stiffness from strategic planning and mission statement creation, simplifying it by taking it back to the basics. Just dropping ideas on a whiteboard with sticky notes makes the process feel less intimidating—especially when using private mode. AI Quick Actions in Lucidspark make the process even easier by helping brainstorm, refine ideas, and summarize key themes into a clear, actionable statement. Key AI Quick Action Features: Brainstorm : Expand and generate ideas quickly Sort Ideas : Organize id

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Olivia Q
Olivia QLucidite
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Powerful brainstorming with AI

I’m curious, how many of you currently use AI for brainstorming? I’ve found myself using it to get inspiration for weekly meals, itineraries for upcoming trips, team activities, and more. What‘s great about it is that it can be used for just about any use case, from deciding on what’s for dinner to developing user personas. To really maximize your AI brainstorming sessions, here are a few of our tips to get better results. Be specific about what you want. For example, instead of saying, “Develop a user persona for my tech company,” try something like, “Develop three user personas for my collaboration software company. Answer who, what, when, where, and why.” Avoid yes or no questions so that AI can provide more detail. Use natural language. 💡Explore our recent blog post for more tips and examples!

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uzoarufu
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Customizing Lucid's Canvas Integration (Special shout out to Ms. Cicero)

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bnomichith
bnomichithLucidite
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[Upcoming webinar on February 27] How non-technical teams use Lucid: New examples to inspire your work

I’ve got exciting news for all the great humans here in marketing, operations, sales, strategy, finance, and other non-technical roles! We’ll be revisiting one of our most popular webinar topics with three all-new examples of how non-technical teams use Lucid to work more efficiently. Here are the details: How non-technical teams use Lucid: New examples to inspire your work February 27, 2025 at 11 a.m. MT Join us for tips, demos, and templates on using Lucid to: Brainstorm, prioritize, and plan impactful projects. Visualize, document, and improve processes. Transform dull meetings into lively, actionable sessions. Register here: https://lucid.co/resources/webinars/how-non-technical-teams-use-lucid-feb-2025?utm_medium=lucid-outreach&utm_source=community&utm_campaign=webinar&utm_content=feb-2025-gtm-webinar3

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Patrick Saul
Patrick SaulLucidite
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Unlock Real Business Value with Tech Value Mapping

“What does ChatGPT actually do? And do I care?” In my past life working in an innovation center, this is a common question I would get from executives. This was not exclusive to ChatGPT. In fact, replace ChatGPT with just about any other technology that’s seeing a lot of hype at the moment (e.g. “The Metaverse”, AR/VR, Robotics, IoT, blockchain/crypto… the list goes on). What they are really asking is this: What value does this new technology actually have for my business? Where can we apply it to get the most benefit? It’s a good question, and it’s the right one to start with when you’re investigating any new technology - whether it’s for your team, your customers, or your company / organization. We’ve developed a Technology Value Mapping template to help teams come together and brainstorm the path forward more effectively. Try it out and let us know what you think! Technology Value Mapping Template Looking to up your facilitation game with an exercise like this? Check out this resour

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Ria S
Lucid Legend Level 8
Kelsey Gaag
Kelsey GaagLucid community team
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Tips for facilitating meetings in Lucidspark 💻

Want to run more efficient and engaging meetings? Try these facilitation tips in Lucidspark to keep your team aligned and productive—whether you’re meeting in person, remotely, or in a hybrid setting. Utilize paths and frames for seamless topic transitions Frames and paths help you effortlessly manage the flow of your meetings. Instead of constantly scrolling and zooming to navigate your boards, you can seamlessly open a path and click through to transition to different topics. Additionally, you can link to the path, which allows everyone in the meeting to follow the same path and easily navigate through the board. This prevents confusion and keeps your team on topic. Add quick tools for efficiency Make collaboration easier by leveraging Quick Tools , which allows you to drag frequently used elements—like sticky notes, Lucid Cards, and story points—directly onto your canvas. This feature allows contributors to easily navigate and add to the canvas. This is a great tool for newer users

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Ria S
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knikolai
knikolaiLucidite
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Two easy ways to drive engagement in your Lucidspark board

If you're looking to boost engagement in your Lucidspark collaboration sessions, here are two great ways to inspire more active participation and create an interactive atmosphere! In your Lucidspark document, simply select Quick tools from the toolbar to access a variety of options, from facilitation support to powerful AI features. One of the most effective ways we've seen teams boost engagement is by using a Sticky note bank. Sticky notes are a key element of collaboration in Lucid, and having an infinite supply encourages participants to freely share all their ideas. It's a fast and easy way to inspire everyone to contribute, without ever worrying about running out of space! Another great tool for increasing interaction is the sticker bank. Similar to the sticky note bank, this feature offers a collection of emojis that collaborators can drag and drop around the board. It’s a fun and intuitive way to quickly gauge audience reactions, making it easy to assess engagement in real time.

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Audrey V
Audrey VLucidite
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Webinar follow-up questions and resources: More ways non-technical teams use Lucid

Thanks to all who joined us for our webinar, “How non-technical teams use Lucid: New examples to inspire your work”! (If you didn’t have the chance to join, you can access the webinar on demand here .) Check out these additional resources to keep learning: On prioritization and alignment: Template: Solution alignment Article: Get started with Visual Activities On process mapping and documentation: Template: Email flow example Article: Create a flowchart in Lucidchart On facilitating engaging meetings: Template: Meeting agenda Course: Pro tips for more productive 30-minute meetings Learning pathway: Creative facilitation A collection of the many ways Lucid teams use Lucid Our first webinar on how non-technical teams use Lucid Lucid help center Leave any follow-up questions you have from the webinar in the comments below so that a Lucid team member can help answer them.

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